I didn’t know until this weekend that you could buy a shredder that would shred credit cards and CDs in addition to paper.  The only downside is that this model is a strip-cut, rather than a cross-cut model.  Although it’s a cross-cut model, my previous shredder was getting kind of frustrating due to its limited capacity and slow speed.  Since I tend to shred a year’s worth of stuff at once (I keep three years of records and shred all the old ones when they pass the three year mark), I decided to give this new one a try. 

This thing eats just about everything you throw at it and barely slows down.  It sucks in a CD and spits out little chunks without missing a beat.  I’d been wondering how I was going to dispose of old back-up CD-Rs.  They can’t be reused and since they tend to have personal information (emails, account info, Quicken files, etc), they need to be destroyed before disposal.  Now they’ll be no problem at all.  It’s actually kind of fun, in a destructive sort of way.